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senate

[sen-it] / ˈsɛn ɪt /






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“I said as a senate candidate that I’d be focused on the down ballot and my plan to do that hasn’t changed.”

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

The bill now heads to the senate, where it is also expected to secure approval, before being enacted by the president.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

The senate said it will convene a work group to meet over the next year to look at the issue.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

Talks between Ottawa and Washington “are pretty firmly stuck,” said Steve Verheul, the former chief Canadian trade negotiator, in testimony last week before the country’s senate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

“Centurion, your party is excused. The senate has other matters to discuss. And, Octavian, if I may confer with you for a moment.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Since news of the deal broke, he said he has met with the system chancellors, provosts, program directors and faculty senates about the acquisition.

From Washington Post Mar. 31, 2023

But the school’s faculty and student senates each passed resolutions calling for a change and the university’s alumni board of directors supported reassessing the team name’s appropriateness.

From Seattle Times Aug. 10, 2021

State senates range in size from twenty members in Alaska to sixty-seven members in Minnesota.

From Textbooks Jul. 28, 2021

The animosity has spread to the 50 statehouses and the 7,382 people who serve in the houses and senates there.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2012

The municipal corporations, the lesser senates, as antiquity has justly styled them, deserve to be considered as the heart of the cities, and the sinews of the Republic.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various




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